“You Sorta Listen with Your Eyes”

2021 ◽  
pp. 335-351
Author(s):  
Martin Barker
Keyword(s):  
Film Music ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Audience Research ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Sound Sources ◽  
Cultural Appropriateness ◽  
Audience Responses

What might investigation of audience responses to films reveal about the role that music plays in responses, understandings, and evaluations? Peter Larsen’s excellent Film Music (2005) examines the “paradox” that audiences sense the importance of music to their experience of films—but often can’t recall it. While Larsen’s critical remarks are sharp and apposite, his discussion is limited by a tendency to talk of “the audience” in the singular. That actual audience research doesn’t figure in his account is not surprising, given how little such research has yet been done. This chapter draws on materials from a major audience research project to help formulate provisional findings and proposals for future research. What these suggest is that audiences use “music” (only sometimes distinguished from other sound-sources) for a range of purposes, from emotional heightening to cueing of understanding, knowledge of narrative developments to more complex determinations of cultural appropriateness.

scholarly journals NORPERM, the Norwegian Permafrost Database – a TSP NORWAY IPY legacy

2010 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-54 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. Juliussen ◽  
H. H. Christiansen ◽  
G. S. Strand ◽  
S. Iversen ◽  
K. Midttømme ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Thermal State ◽  
Ground Surface ◽  
Temperature Data ◽  
Ground Temperature ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Research Project ◽  
International Polar Year ◽  
Standard Format ◽  
Data Infrastructure ◽  
Data Loggers

Abstract. NORPERM – The Norwegian Permafrost Database was developed at the Geological Survey of Norway during the International Polar Year (IPY) 2007–2009 as the main data legacy of the IPY research project Permafrost Observatory Project: A Contribution to the Thermal State of Permafrost in Norway and Svalbard (TSP NORWAY). This paper describes the structural and technical design of NORPERM. NORPERM follows the IPY data policy of open, free, full and timely release of IPY data, and the borehole metadata description follows the Global Terrestrial Network for Permafrost (GTN-P) standard. The ground temperature data infrastructure in Norway and Svalbard is also presented, focussing on the TSP NORWAY permafrost observatory installations in the North Scandinavian Permafrost Observatory and Nordenskiöld Land Permafrost Observatory, as the data providers for NORPERM. Further developments of the database, possibly towards a regional database for the Nordic area, are also discussed. The purpose of NORPERM is to store ground temperature data safely and in a standard format for use in future research. NORPERM stores temperature time series from various depths in boreholes and from the air, snow cover, ground-surface or upper ground layer recorded by miniature temperature data-loggers, and temperature profiles with depth in boreholes obtained by occasional manual logging. It contains all the temperature data from the TSP NORWAY research project, totalling 32 boreholes and 98 sites with miniature temperature data-loggers for continuous monitoring of micrometeorological conditions, and 6 temperature depth profiles obtained by manual borehole logging. The amount of data in the database will gradually increase as data from older, previous projects are added. NORPERM also provides links to near real-time permafrost temperatures obtained by GSM data transfer.

Afterword

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frances R. Aparicio
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Population Based ◽  
National Identities ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Gender And Race

This chapter addresses the dearth of scholarship on, and academic attention to Latina/os of mixed national heritages as a sector of our population. Based on twenty interviews with Intralatina/os in Chicago, the chapter argues that they perform and embody Latinidad in their everyday family lives, negotiate between their two or more national identities, and experience relational racializations within both of their national communities. Their national negotiations reveal the complicated and shifting meanings of their multiple nationalities. In reclaiming their presence and legitimacy as hybrid Latino/as within their families and communities, Intralatino/as both engage the fluidity of national imaginaries as well as reify them in daily performances of culture, class, gender, and race. This research project aims to foster future research interventions that analyze Intralatina/o lives in the United States.

scholarly journals Being involved in research as a collaborator with experience of a prenatal diagnosis of congenital heart defect in the fetus: a qualitative study

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tommy Carlsson ◽  
Ulla Melander Marttala ◽  
Elisabet Mattsson
Keyword(s):  
Prenatal Diagnosis ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Congenital Heart Defect ◽  
Congenital Heart ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Relevant Research ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Heart Defect ◽  
Research Questions

Abstract Background An increasing number of research projects are now collaborating with persons who have lived experience of a specific health-related situation, such as a prenatal diagnosis of congenital heart defect. Such collaboration has the potential to provide valuable insights how to plan future studies, but little is known how these persons experience such involvement. The aim was to explore how persons with lived experience of a prenatal diagnosis perceived collaborating in a research project utilizing patient and public involvement to identify relevant research questions and develop suitable interventions. Methods Persons with experience of a prenatal diagnosis of congenital heart defect in the fetus were interviewed after their participation in a yearlong collaborative research project (n = 9) aiming to explore relevant research questions and develop interventions for expectant parents with a recent prenatal diagnosis. Interviews were analyzed with qualitative content analysis. Results Respondents acknowledged altruistic and personal value related to the collaboration. They valued the opportunity to contribute to future research so that the care of persons experiencing a prenatal diagnosis may be improved. Mixed feelings were described related to sharing and reliving experiences. While it had been emotionally difficult to relive a traumatic event, it also served as an opportunity to process experiences and psychologically adapt. Respondents with terminated pregnancies appreciated the possibility to meet peers, since it was difficult to find peers in everyday life and talk about their experiences with others. Conclusions Researchers who plan to collaborate with persons who have experience of a prenatal diagnosis should be mindful of the potential associated emotional experiences. The appreciation related to meeting peers calls attention to the need for studies that explore peer support.

scholarly journals Spanish adaptation of a film music stimulus set (FMSS): Cultural and gender differences in the perception of emotions prompted by music excerpts

2020 ◽  
pp. 030573562095846
Author(s):  
Nieves Fuentes-Sánchez ◽  
Raúl Pastor ◽  
Tuomas Eerola ◽  
M Carmen Pastor
Keyword(s):  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Film Music ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Basic Emotions ◽  
Perception Of Emotions ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Music Stimulus ◽  
Music And Emotion ◽  
Affective Dimensions

The literature review reveals different conceptual and methodological challenges in the field of music and emotion, such as the lack of agreement in terms of standardized datasets, and the need for replication of prior findings. Our study aimed at validating for Spanish population a set of film music stimuli previously standardized in Finnish samples. In addition, we explored the role of gender and culture in the perception of emotions through music using 102 excerpts selected from Eerola and Vuoskoski’s dataset. A total of 129 voluntary undergraduate students (71.32% females) from different degrees participated voluntarily in this study, where they were instructed to rate both discrete emotions (Happiness, Sadness, Tenderness, Fear, Anger) and affective dimensions (Valence, Energy Arousal, Tension Arousal) using a 9-point scale after presentation of each excerpt. Strong similarities between Finnish and Spanish ratings were found, with only minor discrepancies across samples in the evaluation of basic emotions. Taken together, our findings suggest that the current database is suitable for future research on music and emotions. Additional theoretical and practical implications of this validation are discussed.

Approaching the cultures of use: Netflix, disruption and the audience

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 222-232 ◽  
Author(s):  
Graeme Turner
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Research ◽  
Television Studies ◽  
Cultural Consumption ◽  
Audience Research ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Domestic Spaces ◽  
Audience Studies ◽  
Everyday Lives ◽  
Direct Knowledge ◽  
Television Audience

This article draws on an empirical research project on cultural consumption in order to respond to particular concerns this project raised about our understanding of the current regimes of consumption for television, or what this article describes as the ‘cultures of use’. While there are rich literatures around many aspects of television consumption, this article argues that there is a gap in our direct knowledge of how individuals and households consume television, across platforms and devices, in domestic spaces. In order to fill that gap and to better understand how television consumption is embedded within people’s everyday lives, television studies may need not only to ask new kinds of questions through its research but also to adapt and modify some of the modes of audience research that marked the beginnings of television audience studies.

The Establishment of the Virtual Performance Space in Rock

2008 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 219-241 ◽  
Author(s):  
ALLAN F. MOORE ◽  
RUTH DOCKWRAY
Keyword(s):  
Popular Music ◽  
Academic Discourse ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Sound Sources ◽  
Four Dimensions ◽  
Performance Space ◽  
Temporal Continuity ◽  
Music Recordings ◽  
Geographical Locations ◽  
The Way

AbstractAnalysis of the spatial elements of popular music recordings can be made by way of the ‘sound-box’, a concept that acknowledges the way sound sources are perceived to exist in four dimensions: laterality, register, prominence, and temporal continuity. By late 1972 producers working across a range of styles and in different geographical locations had adopted a normative positioning of sound sources across these dimensions. In 1965 no such norm existed. This article contextualizes the notion of the sound-box within academic discourse on popular music and explores the methodology employed by a research project that addressed the gradual coming-into-existence of the norm, which the project defined as the diagonal mix. A taxonomy of types of mix is offered, and a chronology of the adoption of the diagonal mix in rock is presented.

scholarly journals Die tipering van verbruikerslewenstyle

1991 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Du Preez ◽  
J. B. Du Toit
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Class Group ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Group Recommendations ◽  
Group B ◽  
Consumer Lifestyles ◽  
Politically Active

The typifying of consumer lifestyles. Due to the lack of a South-African instrument to measure consumer lifestyles, a questionnaire is constructed from which lifestyle typifications can be made. This instrument is constructed with reported research as a basis, as well as new items written with the purpose of this research project in mind. In this study four lifestyle typifications are constructed namely (a) the apathetic group, (b) the artistic, socially uninvolved bookworm, (c) the politically active, socially integrated group and (d) the first-class group. Recommendations for future research are made. Opsomming Weens die gebrek aan 'n Suid-Afrikaanse meetinstrument om verbruikerslewenstyle te meet, is 'n vraelys ontwikkel waaruit lewenstyltiperings gedoen kan word. Hierdie instrument is ontwikkel vanuit gerapporteerde navorsing en nuwe items wat geskryf is vir die doeleindes van hierdie navorsing. In hierdie studie is vier lewenstyltiperings saamgestel, naamlik (a) die apatiese groep, (b) die kunssinnige, sosiaal- onbetrokke boekwurms, (c) die polities-aktiewe, sosiaal-gei'ntegreerdes en (d) die voortreflikes. Aanbevelings vir toekomstige navorsing word gemaak.

Remembering ‘the poor soul walking in the rain’: Audience Responses to a Thwarted Makeover inWoman in a Dressing Gown

2013 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 709-726
Author(s):  
Melanie Williams
Keyword(s):  
Recurrent Selection ◽  
General Information ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Research Project ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Audience Responses ◽  
Bad Weather ◽  
Selection Of

This article emerges from a 2004–5 research project on audience memories of the 1957 British film Woman in a Dressing Gown. It provides general information on the project's objectives and methods before going on to detail one of its major findings: an unexpected degree of consensus among its participants when identifying the film's most memorable scene. The film's heroine makes an effort to improve her appearance by getting her hair done, before her transformation is suddenly and cruelly undone by bad weather; this scene stood out in participants' recollections to a greater extent than any other moment from the film. This article aims to account for the recurrent selection of that specific scene by offering a close reading of respondents' memories of it, with particular reference to the scene's central motif of a thwarted makeover.

scholarly journals Examining the Reception and Impact of the Dead Sea Scrolls: Some Possibilities for Future Investigation

2011 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 226-246
Author(s):  
Matthew A. Collins
Keyword(s):  
Film Music ◽  
Dead Sea Scrolls ◽  
Gender Issues ◽  
Dead Sea ◽  
Reception History ◽  
Biblical Studies ◽  
Future Research ◽  
The Dead ◽  
The Relationship

AbstractThe last sixty years afford us a remarkable, though largely unexplored, opportunity to examine the Dead Sea Scrolls from the perspective of “reception history.” This article first provides an overview of what has already been done with regard to this goal and highlights the importance and timeliness of such an approach, suggesting that it is furthermore a necessary endeavor if Qumran Studies is to keep pace with developments in the wider world of Biblical Studies. It continues by outlining some possible directions for future investigation, identifying academic reception, popular reception, and processes of knowledge transfer as three main areas or categories into which such examinations could helpfully be divided. The internal processes of scrolls scholarship, the relationship between Qumran Studies and Biblical Studies, gender issues, the scrolls in literature, film, music, and art, and the role of exhibitions, documentaries, and newspapers, are all highlighted as potential areas for future research.

scholarly journals Sounds in nursing homes and their effect on health in dementia: a systematic review

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Sarah I. M. Janus ◽  
Janouk Kosters ◽  
Kirsten A. van den Bosch ◽  
Tjeerd C. Andringa ◽  
Sytse U. Zuidema ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Nursing Homes ◽  
Cognitive Abilities ◽  
Nursing Home Residents ◽  
Sound Intensity ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Sound Sources ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Nighttime Sleep

ABSTRACT Objectives: Nursing home residents with dementia are sensitive to detrimental auditory environments. This paper presents the first literature review of empirical research investigating (1) the (perceived) intensity and sources of sounds in nursing homes, and (2) the influence of sounds on health of residents with dementia and staff. Design: A systematic review was conducted in PubMed, Web of Science and Scopus. Study quality was assessed with the Mixed Methods Appraisal Tool. We used a narrative approach to present the results. Results: We included 35 studies. Nine studies investigated sound intensity and reported high noise intensity with an average of 55–68 dB(A) (during daytime). In four studies about sound sources, human voices and electronic devices were the most dominant sources. Five cross-sectional studies focused on music interventions and reported positives effects on agitated behaviors. Four randomized controlled trials tested noise reduction as part of an intervention. In two studies, high-intensity sounds were associated with decreased nighttime sleep and increased agitation. The third study found an association between music and less agitation compared to other stimuli. The fourth study did not find an effect of noise on agitation. Two studies reported that a noisy environment had negative effects on staff. Conclusions: The need for appropriate auditory environments that are responsive to residents’ cognitive abilities and functioning is not yet recognized widely. Future research needs to place greater emphasis on intervention-based and longitudinal study design.

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